Showing posts with label antibiotic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antibiotic. Show all posts
Sunday, July 9, 2017
Propolis A Natural Antibiotic Part 2
Propolis A Natural Antibiotic Part 2
According to the International Beekeeping Technology and Economy Institute, propolis has antiproteolytic, bactericidal, and bacteriostatic effectsunparalleled among natural substances for its pharmacodynamic action.
Much of the rediscovery of propolis is due to French scientist Dr. Remy Chauvin, who became fascinated with the fact that bees seemed to be immune to bacteria. He conducted many tests during the 1960s and found that the bee secretes an antibiotic, bee propolis, which makes it immune to attacks from bacteria and viruses.
Dr. Chauvin also learned that this anti-substance of the bee has 100 percent killing effect on bacteria – something which modern antibiotics do not have.
There is a movement in the United States, Denmark and the rest of the world to pay more attention to natural products when it comes to medicine.
Emphasis is being placed on teaching and prevention rather than simply fighting disease. And, certainly, all this provides a receptive background to the work on bee propolis which is going on around the world.
American doctors have been especially impressed with the ability of bee propolis to reduce stress and fight infection.
At medical seminars in America, bee propolis has been shown to be antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal. As one New York doctor says: “It is the only substance (found to date) which is able to balance both cerebral hemispheres and to reduce stress…”
In Russia, doctors have studied bee propolis to see if it can help problems related to blood pressure and diseases of the intestines.
Dr. Fang Zhu of the Workers Hospital in China has tested the product among people with hyperlipemia (excess fat in the blood). He gave bee proplis to his patients everyday and reported that “clinical result suggests that there is a lowering of hyperlipemia during the treatment…”
Bee propolis not only seems to help people who have infections, it seems to help people prevent getting infections. It can be eaten as a daily supplement just like a vitamin or mineral; it is believed to provide stimulation to the body’s own immune system and to build resistance to infection.
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Friday, June 23, 2017
Propolis A Natural Antibiotic Part 1
Propolis A Natural Antibiotic Part 1
Susan Smith Jones, an author and lecturer on exercise and health, states in her book, The Main Ingredients: Positive Thinking, Exercise and Diet, that scientists around the world are rediscovering a natural antibiotic that has been effective for 40 million years.
A natural antibiotic? For 40 million years?
Yes, its name is propolis – and 40 million years is the length of time that bees have been using it to ensure the cleanliness of the hive or tree hollow where the colony makes its home.
Some call propolis a “miracle of nature.” How else, they say, could 50,000 bees, crawling over each other, live healthily in a small hive without some form of protection against bacteria and disease?
Bee propolis is a positive alternative to antibiotics because of its healing action without the side effects of drugs. It has also caught the attention of many because of the widespread fear about the ever-increasing number of bacteria which are becoming resistant to existing antibiotics.
Although man “harvests” propolis from the beehive, bees gather it from the buds of certain trees and herbaceous plants. As the bees find it, propolis is a resinous juice or sap which the trees use themselves to fight infection, disease and to heal cuts.
Altogether, propolis contains approximately 55 percent resins and balms, 30 percent wax, 10 percent etheric oils and 5 percent pollen. Further analysis shows bee propolis to be rich in flavonoids, amino acids, vitamins, minerals and other micronutrients.
The natural antibiotic from trees is taken back to the hive and placed in every comb and corner to protect the bees – especially the 10,000 or so baby bees – from any kind of bacterial infection.
It is easy to see why some scientists feel that a beehive is more sterile than a modern hospital. Perhaps the following example will make this more lucid.
If an alien body or pest such as a lizard or field mouse makes its way into the hive, it will be stung to death and killed by injecting venom. The alien body is then wrapped in a propolis shroud and covered with a wax layer. Decomposition and tissue decay do not occur to this embalmed body for five or six years.
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